1    Rethinking the Humanities “Crisis”

Source
Are the Humanities Really in Crisis? (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Further Reading
Max Weber Invented the Crisis of the Humanities (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Why Students Should Think Like Shakespeare (Chronicle of Higher Education)
What Do the Humanities Do in a Crisis? (The New Yorker)
The Language Arts Are in Steep Decline  (Minding the Campus)
How Political Ideology Is Pushing Religion Out of Religious Studies  (James G. Martin Center)
Critical Care  (National Association of Scholars)
Why We Must Teach Western Civilization  (National Review)

2    Students Want Options—Just Not So Many
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Source
Some Colleges Start to Confront a Surprising Reason Students Fail: Too Many Choices (Hechinger Report)

Further Reading
‘Consultant Fatigue’ Is Real. How Can Colleges Learn to Welcome Outside Advisers? (Chronicle of Higher Education)
‍Some Colleges and Universities Are Bringing the Classroom to the Workplace (Hechinger Report)
How the Coronavirus Tests Higher Ed’s Disciplinary Fault Lines (Chronicle of Higher Education)
‍Is College Remediation a Barrier or a Boost? (Education Next)

3   History Down, Cannabis Up
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Sources
Subjects Matter: It Is Past Time to Rescue the Study of History From Its Present Decline (Public Discourse)
The Discipline That Is Transforming Higher Ed (Chronicle of Higher Education)
‍This University Will Be the Latest to Offer a Cannabis Major (Washington Post)

Further Reading
It’s Time to Tackle Promiscuous Degree Requirements (American Enterprise Institute)
Reinvigorating the Teaching of American History (James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal)
The New Ph.D.(Chronicle of Higher Education)
How a Physics Department Became One of the Country’s Largest Producers of Majors (Chronicle of Higher Education)

4    Bye-Bye, Bricks and Mortar: Are Online Classes the Future?

Sources
It’s Hard to Teach Writing Online (The Atlantic)
Online Higher Education Isn’t Winning Over Students Forced Off Campus by the Coronavirus (Hechinger Report)
Online Learning Finds Its Moment (City Journal)
‍Coronavirus Public Health Emergency Underscores Need for Department of Education’s Proposed Distance Learning Rules (U.S. Department of Education)
Education Dept. Advances Long-Standing Plan to Loosen Regulation of Online College Learning (Washington Post)

Further Reading
Preparing for Emergency Online Teaching (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Why Coronavirus Looks Like a ‘Black Swan’ Moment for Higher Ed (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Coronavirus and the Great Online-Learning Experiment (Chronicle of Higher Education)
The Covid-19 Crisis Is Widening the Gap Between Secure and Insecure Instructors (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Now Is Not the Time to Assess Online Learning (Chronicle of Higher Education)
These Washington University Faculty Had Rejected Online Classes—Until Coronavirus (Washington Post)
‍Universityof Arizona Students Say Finishing Courses Online Is “Expecting Too Much” (Independent Institute)
‍6 Steps to Prepare for an Online Fall Semester (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Coronavirus accelerates higher education’s trend toward distance learning  (The Hechinger Report)
Are Colleges Ready for a Different Kind of Teaching This Fall?  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
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5   Students Stressed by Move to Pass/Fail Grading

Sources
How Has Grading Changed Since Coronavirus Forced Classes Online? Often, It Depends on the Professor (Chronicle of Higher Education)
The Grading System Upended, College Students Are Pushing Grad Schools, Employers to be Flexible (Washington Post)

6    More Pay to Play for College Athletes
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Sources
What Happens When College Athletes Get Paid (Wall Street Journal)
‍How Fighting the NCAA Became a Bipartisan Sport (Washington Post)
As NCAA Handwrings, Female Athletes See Opportunities From Looser Endorsement Rules (Wall Street Journal)
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Further Reading
Race-Centered Narratives Obscure the Problems of College Sports (James Martin Center for Academic Renewal)
Hidden Figures: College Students May Be Paying Thousands in Athletic Fees and Not Know It (NBCNews.com)
College Football Is Still Months Away. But the Sport Is Already Reeling. (Wall Street Journal)
College Athlete Pay Battle Reaches Capitol Hill (Morning Education)
‍Sacred Heart Is No Hockey School. $60 Million Could Change That. (New York Times)
‍Football Coach Undermines Racial Progress at Mississippi State (New York Times)
NCAA group supports player endorsement plan  (ESPN)
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7   Campus Leaders Prepare for Worst-Case Scenarios

Sources
Moody’s Lowers Higher Ed Outlook to Negative Amid Coronavirus Crisis (Education Dive)
‍If the Coronavirus Collapses State Budgets, What Will Happen to Public Colleges? (Chronicle of Higher Education)
‍An Admissions Bet Goes Bust (Chronicle of Higher Education)
How to Steer Your Campus Through a Recession (Chronicle of Higher Education)
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Further Reading
The Hard Choices Presidents Will Have to Make (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Rules Eased on Colleges Seeking to Close Their Campuses Amid Outbreak (New York Times)
‘The Worst-Case Scenario’: What Financial Disclosures Tell Us About Coronavirus’s Strain on Colleges So Far (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Congress Is Poised to Pass a Coronavirus Stimulus Deal. Here’s What’s in It for Higher Ed. (Chronicle of Higher Education)
The Great Recession Was Bad for Higher Education. Coronavirus Could Be Worse. (Chronicle of Higher Education)
The Big Bill for Canceling March Madness Has Arrived at the NCAA (Wall Street Journal)
University of Notre Dame to Reject Federal Stimulus Money (Wall Street Journal)
Virus Pushes Colleges to the Breaking Point, Forcing ‘Hard Choices’ About Education  (Wall Street Journal)
Harvard to Have a Fall Semester, but Details Unclear  (Wall Street Journal)
Critical Care  (National Association of Scholars)
More campuses moving toward reopening in the fall  (The College Fix)
Coronavirus bursts the US college education bubble  (Financial Times)
Colleges Must Cut Administrative Costs to Survive This Crisis  (Real Clear Education)
How the Coronavirus Might — or Might Not — Slow Research Universities’ Ambitions  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
How to Bridge the Mutual Distrust Between Leaders and Professors Amid Covid-19  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
As U.S. Offers Relief, Pandemic-Stricken Colleges Ponder the Risks of Taking It  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
How to Address the Elephant in the Room: Academic Costs  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Why public colleges and universities — which educate nearly 75 percent of students — need help from Congress now  (Washington Post)
DeVos Criticized on Emergency Grants  (Inside Higher Ed)
‘I’m Bewildered’: For Tiny Colleges, Federal Covid-19 Stimulus Is a Windfall  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
180 congressmen support call for US$26bn research support  (University World News)
UW-Madison accepts nearly $10M in federal COVID aid — still enacts pay cuts, furloughs  (The College Fix)
Repurposing Campus Spaces  (Inside Higher Ed)
Guidance for Reopening Campuses  (Academe Blog)
America’s Colleges & Universities Awarded $12.5 Billion In Coronavirus Bailout – Who Can Get It And How Much  (Forbes)
Six Ways To Keep American Universities Alive  (Forbes)
3 Ideas to Reduce Educational Disparities Post-Pandemic  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Purdue’s Smart Approach To COVID-19: Planning For Fall  (Forbes)
What has happened when campuses shut down for other disasters? A coronavirus case study  (The Hechinger Report)
Here’s a List of Colleges’ Plans for Reopening in the Fall  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Its Eyes on the Fall, One Campus Is Conducting a Public-Health Dry Run. Here’s What That Looks Like  (Chronicle of Higher Education)

8     “Heart and Soul” Meets Pandemic Realities at Berkeley

Sources
UC Berkeley Races to Save Its ‘Heart and Soul’ With New $6-Billion Fundraising Quest (Los Angeles Times)
‍From Boom to Bust: It’s a New and Scary World for Higher Ed Fundraising (Inside Philanthropy)

Further Reading‍
‘They’re Leaving Low-Income Students in the Lurch’: Public Colleges Have Doubled Down on Merit Aid, Report Says (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Lessons on Legacy Giving From the Sherlock Hibbs Endowment (Philanthropy Daily)
Why Donors Must Abandon Their Ivy League Alma Maters Now (The American Conservative)
We Analyzed 200 College-President Job Ads. Nearly All of Them WantedThis Skill(Chronicle of Higher Education)
‍Coronavirus Upends College Giving Days as Institutions Pivot to Raise Money for Students’ Basic Needs (Philanthropy.com)

9    Endowments Could Lose Billions

Sources
2019 NACUBO-TIAA Study of Endowments (NACUBO.org)
Already Stretched Universities Now Face Tens of Billions in Endowment Losses (Hechinger Report)

Further Reading
‍Universities have huge endowments so they'll be fine, right? Not that simple  (John Cochrane's Blog)‍
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10    College Presidents Are Still Mostly White Males—But Women and Minorities Make Gains
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Sources
Harvard Gets Requests as It Searches for Business School Dean (Wall Street Journal)
Nohriato Remain Business School Dean Until December (Harvard Gazette)
George Mason Selects Dean of UC-Irvine Engineering School as Its NextPresident (Washington Post)
Darryll Pines, a Veteran Engineering Dean, to Become Next U-Md. President (Washington Post)
Wharton Names Erika James First Female Dean of University of Pennsylvania’s Famed Business School (Philadelphia Inquirer)  

Further Reading
A College President Made an Ill-Chosen Racial Analogy. It’s Not the First Time Someone in His Position Has Done That. (Chronicle of Higher Education)
The Hard Choices Presidents Will Have to Make (Chronicle of Higher Education)
‘Well Worth Saving’ Review: Displaced Academics (Wall Street Journal)
UC Irvine Provost Put on Leave Pending Investigation Into Academic and Research Activities (Los Angeles Times)
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11    Wanted: More Openness in Presidential Searches

Source
The Costs of Secret Presidential Searches (Academe Blog)

Further Reading
University Trustees Are Often Clueless: Does It Matter? (Independent Institute)
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